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Orwell was grubbing around THERE is an alternative view on George Orwell (Mail), and you don't need to be an expert on 20th-century Russian history to perceive this. In my view, his Animal Farm is a derisorily simplistic view of the 1917 Russian Revolution. I believe it was based on the British wartime morale-raising series of documentary farming films, made between 1941 and 1942, entitled The Crown Of The Year.
These films were set on various farms around the regions of Britain. The likelihood is that Orwell, for hidden reasons of his own, wished to heap calumny on the collective spirit of 'Home Front' life in wartime Britain, perhaps preferring all the dingy, grubby but oddly flea, bedbug, lice and germ-free falsehoods to be found in his 1936 book The Road To Wigan Pier.See the full content of this document
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Orwell Was Grubbing Around ; Letters
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